
“Knowhow is the tacit computational capacity that allows us to perform actions, and it is accumulated at both the individual and collective levels. The tacit nature of knowhow seems strange, as it makes us feel like automatons that are unaware of what we are doing. Yet there is nothing strange in that. As Marvin Minsky, one of the fathers of artificial intelligence, once said: “No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it’s doing; but most of the time, we aren’t either.”4”
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
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